Hey all, perhaps a stupid question, here. I have been finding myself more and more interested in investing recently, but I am hitting a bit of a wall in my understanding. I want to go out and buy guides and books, and keep track of financial news and actually, you know, invest, but whenever I read things such as this where it is implied that even hedge funds cannot consistently beat the S&P...I wonder what the point is?
I am not in this to get rich quick, but I do want the best way to accumulate money as possible (in 10, 20, 30 years, I mean) without having too much risk. I'm a fairly smart person - at a top 10 world uni for maths, so I seem to be okay at picking up stuff - but is that enough, even with practice and learning? Am I almost certainly better off investing in an index fund and not having to worry too much rather than spending time actively choosing stocks and other assets?
Apologies if I'm using the wrong terminology or am just painfully ignorant on the matter.
Submitted March 22, 2017 at 01:03PM by LongingForTheCulture http://ift.tt/2nCv5h4
